Mailman 3 June 2001 - Mailman-Users

Too many pending requests?
by Per Starback July 7, 2003

July 7, 2003

I can't get to the pending request page for a mailing list. (My web clients just say "waiting for response" and finally give up.) I think it is because there are too many pending requests after some problems. (config.db is almost 10MB.) How can I do this some other way?

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Allowing posts with certain topics/blocking all others
by Sarah K. Miller Sept. 16, 2002

Sept. 16, 2002

I have a list that I'd like to enforce a set of headers on. In other words, each message subject must start with a certain word in order be posted. Has anybody found a way to do this? I know I can block messages with certain headers, but I want to block all messages and only allow those with the approved headers. If anybody has a great idea how to accomplish this, please pass it on ... -- Sarah

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thttpd?
by Justin Sheehy Dec. 1, 2001

Dec. 1, 2001

Hello, A quick scan of the archives and the FAQ didn't turn anything up, so I thought I'd ask this here. Is anyone known to be using Mailman with thttpd? If so, are there any known gotchas or things to look out for? I can't think of a reason why it wouldn't work, but since the Mailman docs seem to assume Apache, I figured that it was worth asking before I went ahead and set up a listserver using thttpd/Mailman. Thanks. -Justin

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Looping problem...
by TJ Snider Aug. 1, 2001

Aug. 1, 2001

I just ended up with a nasty loop... just when starting up a list. To reproduce: Use Mailman 2.0.5. Turn on the anonymous_list option, so mail seems to come from the list. Have someone on the list have a vacation notice setup. The notice loops... in this case up to 600 times, overnight, before I caught it. Is there any way of maintaining the anonymous_list feature without the looping? I've turned the anonymous_list feature off, but if it can't handle vacation notices, what's the use? TJ

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virtual hosting tactic
by Rodrigo Borges Pereira July 30, 2001

July 30, 2001

Hi! I'm running a server that hosts a few domains. I already have mailman running for lists.mydomain.com, and it is working great. However, now i want to give users that host domains the ability to use lists.userdomain.com too, and each user has it's own mailman setup under his domain. What's the best tactic for this? I'm using Qmail and latest Mailman. TIA Rodrigo

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Re: Mailman & Sendmail problems
by Bob Puff＠NLE July 10, 2001

July 10, 2001

Hey Barry, Thanks for the info on how 2.1's "cron" works... So does it still wait until the next minute to check for messages if it isn't currently processing any, or do they get processed immediately? Bob

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Wrong email addresses leading to mail-loops
by Michael Dosser July 5, 2001

July 5, 2001

Hello dear list members! We were running mailman 2.02beta and moved to new a new server (FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE, sendmail 8.11.4 and mailman 2.03). all lists are working fine. Problem description: Whenever a members email address is wrong, e.g. bla@.bla.org or whenever a local email adress has no mailbox qrunner tries to deliver x-times to all members, which it has reached until the wrong email address. It obviously stops when we delete the files in $MAILMANHOME/qfiles. But this cannot be the solution since nobody is sitting there watching postmaster mails every second ;) Anyway: this is very annoying since lots of members unsubscribed after this has happened ... uhm, and: yes, we have bounce options activated on every list with the options: "5","3","5","disable and notify me". Secound uhm: yes, I searched the archive, but have not found anything similar. Question: Is this a bug in mailman 2.03 or did i make some configuration errors? If the latter is the case, I added the servers configuration below, hope that's not to much ... Settings: mm_cfg.py: DEFAULT_HOST_NAME = 'mailman.domain.bla' DEFAULT_URL = 'http://mailman.domain.bla/mailman/' MAILMAN_OWNER = 'mailman-owner(a)xxx.xxx' PUBLIC_ARCHIVE_URL = '/pipermail' PRIVATE_ARCHIVE_URL = '/mailman/private' MAX_SPAWNS = 100 SMTP_MAX_RCPTS = 100 DELIVERY_MODULE = 'Sendmail' SENDMAIL_CMD = '/usr/sbin/sendmail' Sendmail: First looks up the virtusertable and maps then to aliases. All local users have a virtusertable entry and for every domain we have we put a @domain.bla error:nouser User unknown We have cyrus as the local delivery agent. config.mc: divert(-1) VERSIONID(`$Id: generic-bsd4.4.mc,v 8.11 2001/04/04 16:26:02 mic Exp $')dnl OSTYPE(bsd4.4)dnl DOMAIN(generic)dnl define(`confCW_FILE', `-o /etc/mail/sendmail.cw')dnl define(`confPRIVACY_FLAGS', `authwarnings,needmailhelo,noexpn,novrfy')dnl define(`confTO_CONNECT', `1m')dnl define(`confTO_QUEUERETURN', `4d')dnl define(`confTO_QUEUEWARN', `4h')dnl define(`ALIAS_FILE', `/etc/mail/aliases')dnl define(`confAUTH_MECHANISMS',`CRAM-MD5 DIGEST-MD5 LOGIN PLAIN')dnl define(`CYRUS_MAILER_FLAGS', `SA5@w|')dnl define(`CYRUS_BB_MAILER_FLAGS', `S')dnl define(`confLOCAL_MAILER', `cyrus')dnl define(`CYRUS_MAILER_PATH',`/usr/local/cyrus/bin/deliver')dnl define(`CERT_DIR', `MAIL_SETTINGS_DIR`'certs')dnl define(`confCACERT_PATH', `/etc/mail/certs/netbase')dnl define(`confCACERT', `CERT_DIR/netbase/CAcert.pem')dnl define(`confSERVER_CERT', `CERT_DIR/netbase/cert.pem')dnl define(`confSERVER_KEY', `CERT_DIR/netbase/key.pem')dnl define(`confCLIENT_CERT', `CERT_DIR/netbase/cert.pem')dnl define(`confCLIENT_KEY', `CERT_DIR/netbase/key.pem')dnl define(`confRUN_AS_USER',`root:mail')dnl TRUST_AUTH_MECH(`LOGIN PLAIN')dnl FEATURE(`domaintable')dnl FEATURE(`genericstable')dnl FEATURE(`mailertable')dnl FEATURE(`redirect')dnl FEATURE(`use_cw_file')dnl FEATURE(`access_db')dnl FEATURE(`blacklist_recipients')dnl FEATURE(`virtusertable')dnl FEATURE(`dnsbl')dnl FEATURE(`delay_checks')dnl FEATURE(`use_ct_file')dnl MAILER(local)dnl MAILER(`smtp') MAILER(`cyrus') LOCAL_RULE_0 R$=N $: $#local $: $1 R$=N < @ $=w . > $: $#local $: $1 Rbb + $+ < @ $=w . > $#cyrusbb $: $1 Any help would be appreciated! Thx in advance,mic -- Michael Dosser http://org.netbase.org

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Exim doesn't forward messages to mailman
by Moacir July 2, 2001

July 2, 2001

My mailman setup, which has been running fine for months now, suddenly stopped working on the 13th. That is to say, I had all the directors, etc., set up in exim already, and everything was working fine. Suddenly, it has all stopped. It seems at first glance like an exim problem, but exim is handling all mail fine-- including unsubscribe messages! When I send a message to a list, I get this in /var/log/exim/mainlog: 2001-06-19 21:54:25 15CY8P-0008Sd-00 <= moacir(a)zuikis.uchicago.edu H=zuikis.uchi cago.edu [128.135.57.157] U=moacir P=esmtp S=982 id=20010619214935.A11301@zuikis .uchicago.edu 2001-06-19 21:54:28 15CY8P-0008Sd-00 => test <test(a)mydomain.com> D=list_director T=list_transport 2001-06-19 21:54:28 15CY8P-0008Sd-00 Completed It never goes from there to actually funnel the messages. My one hint that I've already got is this: > exim -v -bt test user "test" for file existence test not found test(a)mydomain.com deliver to test in domain mydomain.com director = list_director, transport = list_transport yet ~mailman/lists/test/config.db exists, which is, I think, how exim tells if a list exists. This has me completely stumped, and I don't even know where to look on the mailman side of things for help. Error logs end on the 13th--the same day the lists stopped working ;) I upgraded from 2.0.3 to 2.0.5 and nothing changed. I made a completely new installation of mailman (and changed the web and exim.confs accordingly) and nothing changed. In short, and to repeat, I'm stumped. So I have mailman 2.0.5, exim 3.22 (built Apr 10) and debian (though the mailman install was done by hand). --m

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Qmail - huge performance increase (fwd)
by claw＠kanga.nu July 1, 2001

July 1, 2001

I'm not a QMail user and so can't verify or confirm the truth of this. However, we have enough performance and scalability discussions here that it may help someone: http://lists.debian.org/debian-isp-0106/msg00221.html --<cut>-- To: <debian-isp(a)lists.debian.org> Subject: Qmail - huge performance increase From: "Jason Lim" <maillist(a)jasonlim.com> Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 01:45:23 +0800 Reply-To: "Jason Lim" <maillist(a)jasonlim.com> Hi, Anyone that has followed this list knows I've been trying to boost Qmail's outgoing mail performance greatly. Just thought I'd let everyone know that increasing the number in the "conf-split" drastically improves performance. One of the problems I was having earlier was that the customer's server had a HUGE number of emails, and even just doing "ls" in each directory in the qmail queue directories would take ages, as there were so many individual emails queued. SO... by increasing conf-split to 97 (from the default of 20 something afaik), each directory ends up only having a hundred or so files. Doing "ls" now is far speedier. I couldn't find any documentation anywhere stating this, so I'll share it with you all :-) Sincerely, Jason --<cut>-- -- J C Lawrence claw(a)kanga.nu ---------(*) http://www.kanga.nu/~claw/ The pressure to survive and rhetoric may make strange bedfellows

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Using Mailman
by diego June 30, 2001

June 30, 2001

Please, What do i have to do to run Mailman? I have finished the install process, but and now? How can I run Mailman?. Thank you.

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